Higher Education Bill — Third Reading — 31 Mar 2004 at 19:20

David Drew MP, Stroud voted against allowing university tuition fees to increase from £1125 per year to up to £3000 per year, and against making other changes to higher education funding and regulation arrangements.

The majority of MPs voted to allow the Higher Education Bill 2004 to move to its third reading, and continue its path to becoming law.

The main provisions of the bill were:

To allow University tuition fees to increase from the fixed £1125 per year to up to £3000 per year.

To create the Office for Fair Access to regulation higher education institution's charging of fees.

To create the Office of the Adjudicator in Higher Education - a complaints body - higher education institutions became legally bound to deal with.

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